OPPOSITION Leader Pennelope Beckles has accused the Government of seeking to minimise the murders of corporal Anuska Eversley and nine-year-old J’Layna Armstrong as well as the illegal dumping of bodies in the Cumuto Cemetery.

Speaking at a PNM town hall meeting on Monday night at the Diego Martin Community Centre, she criticised the administration for what she said was an attempt to downplay the grim discoveries.

“Fellow citizens, our innocent J’Layna Armstrong robbed of her future during a failed state of emergency. Police officer Anuska Eversley brutally murdered in a police station during a failed state of emergency. Fifty infant bodies unlawfully discarded, and they will have you believe that is a normal thing. How many of you hear about 50 bodies just buried in Trinidad very casually? And our Prime Minister say that is a regular thing—50 children, and that is a regular thing. This month we have already crossed 100 murders during a failed state of emergency,” she said.